Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855.
Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.
At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.
From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. His first published story appeared in "Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" before he was 20. Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast. He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in 1885.
In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie". She suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897. Due to his sense of loyalty he had maintained a purely platonic relationship with Jean while his first wife was alive. Jean died in London on 27 June 1940.
Conan Doyle fathered five children. Two with his first wife—Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976), and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). With his second wife he had three children—Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 – 19 February 1987; former sister-in-law of Barbara Hutton); Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910–3 June 1970) and Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912–18 November 1997).
Conan Doyle was found clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930. He had died of a heart attack at age 71. His last words were directed toward his wife: "You are wonderful." The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, reads:
STEEL TRUE
BLADE STRAIGHT
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
KNIGHT
PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS
Conan Doyle's house, Undershaw, located in Hindhead, south of London, where he had lived for a decade, had been a hotel and restaurant between 1924 and 2004. It now stands empty while conservationists and Conan Doyle fans fight to preserve it.
A statue honours Conan Doyle at Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, where Conan Doyle lived for 23 years. There is also a statue of Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, close to the house where Conan Doyle was born.
0 有用 好喝的椰奶倒掉 2023-08-17 04:28:30 德国
我到底什么时候才能不拖延:):)
0 有用 Mariana 2020-11-11 08:07:58
开新的一本
0 有用 Yanus 2018-04-13 22:44:49
读完第二本原文书了 坚持把英文当成一个习惯
0 有用 Claudia 2013-12-10 10:14:29
看的是Penguin Classics的hardcopy版~ 刚看完一遍中文就又跟着看了一遍英文,理解更加深了~ 故事本身很阴抑玄乎,立意应该是反映印度反殖民革命的,看过觉得世事真的很多变,人为了钱财能够放弃的东西太多~
0 有用 小猪与青蛙 2021-11-08 22:37:26
听书的,挺有趣的故事,但是感觉自己不是特别喜欢侦探股故事,还是喜欢Tom Sawyer和pride and prejudice,这种活泼浪漫的。
0 有用 Coco 2024-01-15 13:23:27 北京
Still my best detective.(福尔摩斯探案集系列 · 四签名)
0 有用 Солнце 2023-10-26 14:04:12 四川
现在看,romance和殖民主义色彩都很强:侦查冒险,异国传奇,和一些非人化/兽化的角色
0 有用 好喝的椰奶倒掉 2023-08-17 04:28:30 德国
我到底什么时候才能不拖延:):)
0 有用 spiderpig 2023-05-21 22:02:44 四川
看的第一本福尔摩斯,语言还算易懂,悬疑的营造与故事的推进都不错,但后段破案的水准不完全符合预期;结尾独白的故事其实蛮精彩的,但篇幅如此之长让我觉得全书比例失调,是否有更好的叙述方式呢?
0 有用 清少纳言 2023-02-04 08:02:13 美国
1889年在伦敦朗廷酒店,一位爱尔兰作家和一位苏格兰作家参加了同一个晚宴,两人的对话给了王尔德写《道林·格雷的画像》的启发、给了柯南道尔写《四签名》的启发。在王尔德受审入狱后,柯南道尔在回忆这个美好的夜晚时仍然写下自己对王尔德的高尚品格的赞誉。Stephen Fry甚至认为从这第二本书开始出现的Sherlock的优雅和颓废有和王尔德相遇以后的影响。惺惺相惜可能是最美好的人类感情之一。